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jno.i.miliee&co.,proprietors.| An Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. jibwish.oeist,pomuiur. "VOL. 3. YORKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER lO, 1857. N036. Original fflclrg. For the Yorkvi'.lc Enquirer. THE SABBATH BELL. BT MRS. M. W. STRATTON. Suggested by tht recent and sudden death of a pious friend. The Sabbath Bell, its music floats So sweetly on the stilly air, The Christian loves the solemn notes, And gladly seeks the house of prayer, Life's chequered scenes are changingoft, And on his brow those changes tell; But still his hopes are fixed aloft, And still he loves the Sabbath Bell. For human passions rise within This qniok, impetuous, ardent heart, And prayer he finds a shield from sin, A strength to act the christian's part, There was his consolation too, When troubles on his life-path fell, This star of hope but brighter grew And sweeter seemed the Sabbath Bell. Ye.favored ones whose gentle souls Ne'er knew or dreaded passion's sway? Whose life's untroubled current rolls In calm monotony away? Ye who were made by Nature's hand, In peaceful, quiet shades to dwell? With no temptations to withstand? And born to love the Sabbath Bell? Ye cannot know what struggles wild Such strong, impulsive bosoms rend, Or how ambition's tempted child Must war with nature to the end? How hard to bid the busy brain 1 No more on worldly hopes to dwell, 1 To turn from thrilling music's strain, 1 And better love the Sabbath Bell. 1 1 It may be such a bosom wins A brighter crown?a keener bliss, Than he who only never sins Not knowing, feeling more than this, That one a nobler triumph claims Who thus has struggled long and well? Let earthly pleasures?earthly aims, Ne'er drown the sound of Sabbath Bell. The Sabbath Bell, its music floats Now sadly ou the stilly air, A widowed mourner hears its notes And seeks alone the house of prayer, What deep'ning anguish clouds her brow, No words can even faintly tell, For oh, her life's companion now j Sleeps 'neath the sound of Sabbath Bell. s No more they'll seek the house of God? r No more they'll kneel together there, ^ But she can kiss the chast'ning rod, 1 And find the lost one's comfort?prayer, 1 Yet must she see his empty seat, And miss his voice in music's sweli, 1 Still in all things a token meet, 1 E'en in the sound of Sabbath Bell. ' Columbia, Aug 29th, 1857. < 1 luteal. i From the Unionville Journal. KANSAS. ; The interest felt in Kansas matters, and 1 our emigrants there, will excuse, I think, the * statement of a few facts to the public ! through the Journal, connected therewith. < On my arrival at Leavenworth, my first busiuessand aim was to find out the where a- ] bouts of Capt. McKissick and his associates. 5 A few days spent in fruitless enquiries as to ' their precise locality, determined me to pro- ' cure an outfit for ?< prairie life," and go in ' search of them. On the third day of my 1 stay in Leavenworth, aod a few minutes of ' the time I was to leave, to my agreeable ' surprise and gratification, Capt. McKissick 1 and Mr. Mills arrived in the city, on busi- 1 ness connected with their land claims? ( From them I learned that the others of their party were pretty much scattered on claims of their own, and guarding claims for others at S30 per month, and expenses paid. By this means, and the sale of their own claims, they have each acquired quite a handsome little sum of money. Their lands were sold at the Osawkee Land sales, between the 25th of July and 10th of August, after which time they would again be out of employment. The most of them contemplated making pre-emptions, off of which, if judicious selections were made, they may realize from S300 to ?1000 more during the summer. At Osawkee I was with the boys in camp for several days, and learned many interesting incidents connected with their trials and privations in the fulfillment of their missions, many of which were truly distressing ; compared to which their pay 1 is far from being adequate compensation? j indeed, the Committee would do them but | sheer justice if they were to double their pay. However, none of them complain, and all are well, happy and contented, and look forward to no distant day, when they are again to visit their "homes and friends and happy land." But they are resolved to remain at their posts until the final battle for Southern Rights j and Southern institutions is fought and icon. The day before I left Kansas, I succeeded j in getting a situation for Capt. McKissick, as assistant "Wagon master to a train of wagons for Santa Fe and Salt Lake City, at a ; salary of S125 per month, lie was highly | delighted with the situation, and ere this, is j many miles over the plains towards the ( ? celestial city of the latter-day saints."? t But before leaving Leavenworth, Capt. Mc- ] Kissick was assured by Mr. llussell, his ( employer, that he could return to Kansas in c time to vote on the Constitution, should that s instrument be referred to the people for their t ratification, which is supposed will be in ] December or January next; after which he i will return to South Carolina. i The five of the fifteen emigrants sent to t Kansas by the Committee of this District, < who have remained there, are, Capt. E. J. v McKissick, A. J. Sanders, and F. M. Armstrong, of Union ; J. M. Mills and P. 0. McMakin, of Spartanburg. David Bobo, also from TTion, was in camp with the boys. He tvent to Kansas on his own means, and from a sense of duty. He has settled near Atchison City, in the Kickapoo country, which is the finest portion of Kansas, where he is making investments in lands that will more than compensate him for the sacrifices he has made. Besides these, I met with many other South Carolinians, all of whom seemed to be contented and happy. Amongst them, Ibzan J. Rice, former Editor of the Anderson Gazette, now associate Editor of the Lravenioortli Journal. In this office, I also met Benj. Murtishaw, formerly from this village, but latterly from Columbia. Mr. Hinton, its foreman, once of the Mercury office, Charleston. H. E. Hardy, once of the Congaree House, Columbia; he is assistant .1 ___ 1 - 1 M_ _1_ r. iu. at .Leavenworin, ana was aDour closing a contract with Government to go with Gen. Harney to Salt Lake, at very fair wages. Majr. Dargan, is also at Leavenworth city engaged in commission and mercantile business. I also had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mr. Boyd, of Kingstree, who slapped the jaws of the notorious house* burner and robber, Gen. Mitchell, the leader of a part of Lane's Free-soil faction.? He is practicing law at Donaphon, is a young man of fine talent, oharacter and habits, and will do well In regard to the political condition and aspect of Kansas affairs, it grieves me to see with what alacrity the newspapers generally, and especially of South Carolina, seize hold of and publish with editorial denunciations, any telegraphic despatch, and news scraps, calculated to detract and injure the character and cause of the pro-slavery party in Kansas. It is indeed lamentable, that the entire newspaper press, (with the single exception of the Charleston Mercury, and perhaps the Courier,) should manifest such i total want of correct information touching i matter of such vital importance to them md the South. To publish despatches and umors without comment, if erroneous may je excused ; but it is unpardonable in Edtors, whose high md sacred business it is 0 construct and enlighten public opinion, to leliberately write and publish what is not inly improbable, but wholly false iu fact.? Since Gov. Walker's "Isothermal line" )olicy was inaugurated in Kansas, the press ustaining him, and the national democracy :enerally seem to be perfectly demented vith the idea that soil and climate are to deermine the question of slavery in Kansas ! ind they argue as if they believed it.? foremost in this " Isothermal" school iu his state, is the Sonch Carolinian, supported by the Patriot and Mountaineer and Spartanburg Express. The first of these md perhaps the most influential of the ihree, in his blind zeal to sustain the Buchai in and Walker policy, before in fact, it is tnown what that policy is, gravely asserts hat "it is because the country (Kansas) is not, under providence, doomed to slave labor; * * * and that the winds of Heav jn and the elements are against us." This irgument, if argumeut it can be called, is not only untenable, but is palpably and plainly illogical : it furnishes its own refutation. If soil and climate will prohibit slavery in Kansas, why is it ^that such a jlamor is made by the Abolitionists of the NTorth, and of Kansas, in favor of prohibitng slavery by positive law? Mow I answer the question ? It is because, under 1 providence," slavery is "doomed " to exst in Kansas, if not prohibited by positive aw. Gov. Walker kuows this; the Aboitionists kuow it, and the pro-slavery party snow it; and the Editor of the Caroliniau nay know it, if he will visit that country, [n Missouri, some portions of which is lorth of Kansas, slave labor is to-day worth louble what it is in South Carolina. And so it would be iu Iowa, Illinois and Indiana, vhere soil and climate, and "the winds of [Ieaven and the elements" are quite as fatal 0 slavery as they are in Kansas; andslave y would exist in these States; if not prolibited by positive law. They contain the inest hemp lands in the world, and whercv?r hemp can be grown successfully, a field land will hire for from ?250 to ?300 a fear, aud will make from ?500 to ?800 ajove the ordinary crops of corn, Wheat, Dats, Potatoes, &c. This i9 the case in Missouri, and will be the case in Kansas, if jositive law does not " doom " slavery here. Not less injurious to the cause of Kansas, ind false, is the Carolinian's estimated strength of the pro-slavery party there.? Rasing his calculation upon the census of 'Gov. Robinson"?as he is pleased to call :his notable murderer?he informs the South, tnd Robinson's friends at the North, that :here is exactly 153 slaves in Kansas ! 5,)00 pro-slavery votes, and 17,000 abolition rotes! The conclusion there arrived at is ?ar, very far from being true ; and it is suprising?unaccountable?that the Carolitian should prefer the authority of "Gov. Robinson " to that of the pro-slavery party n Kansas. Under a law of the Territory, 1 registration of voters was made last spring ' showing nearly 10,000 voters, nine-tenths of i vhom were known to be pro slavery men; a i iact well known to the people of Kansas, ! >nd published repeatedly by almost every \ )aper in the Union, and no doubt the Caro- i 'inian also. In Kansas, no pro-slavery man J jstimated the ultra pro-slavery vote at less 1 ,han 8,000 ; to this is added by the recent ' Democratic organization, some 3,000 or 4,-; )00 liberal Free State men, who will un-1 loubtedly vote for a constitution establishing j slavery for a limited period. Added to \ hese errors and wrongs to our friends in Kansas, is another of still more grievous import. It is charged by the Carolinian and eiterated by the Patriot and Express, that he entire pro-slavery party in Kansas inlorse Governor Walker's policy, and rely ipon a false telegraphic account of the pro- j ceedings of the Democratic Convention to nominate a candidate for Congress, made by one of Walker's minions, and with Walker's I knowledge and approbation. I speak knowingly when I say, that I have it from the chairman of the committee who reported the resolution to the Convention, which was adopted without a dissenting vote. He told me that when the matter was discussed in committee, the division was on a proposition to denounce Walker's policy, and that after discussion, it was thought wisest neither to denounce or endorse Walker, but to report to the Convention ^ resolution swstaining him in his efforts to preserve and enforce the laics of the Territory. If these editors will examine their files, they will find in the St. Louis Republican, between the 10th and 25th of July, a communication from the gentleman to whom I have alluded, correcting the statement, made with Walker's sanction, to the effect that they had endorsed his policy. Again, I made it my business to inquire of the leaders and others of the pro-slavery party in Kansas, if they did endorse Walker's policy, and the result was that not one in fifty did so; indeed I do not now remember a single man who approved, much less endorsed Walker's course ; they tolerate him, and intend to use him if they can, while they watch him with the eye of jealousy and distrust. His policy will have no more influence on the Constitutional Convention, than will the ravings of Garrison or Greely. The Convention is ultra pro-slavery, and when they have framed their Constitution, will, in their wisdom, determine for themselves the proper course to pursue. If they think it best for their cause and the South, to refer the Constitution to the people for ratification, they will do so ; but Walker will have no influence over them whatever. The members are superior to his threats, and are not to be intimidated by him or his supporters, whether they are the Cabinet at Washington, his Abolition sympathisers, or the entire intensified National Democracy of the Union. And they will make Kansas a" slave State, just so sure as the time arrives; and my own belief is, that Walker will favor, if he does not assent, in the scheme; and my reasons for thinking so are simply these : When Gov. Walker entered upon the discharge of his duties as Governor of Kansas, he mistook entirely the character of the people he undertook to govern. His a. i tuui tu luuuiiiAic liiu -rvuunuuuisuo, ua\c entirely failed. Instead of making them friends, he has made them the bitterest of enemies. They deuounce, ridicule and laugh at him, from one end of the Territory to the other: and in turn, he is bitter and vindictive towards them. In private circles, he repudiates the construction given to his Inaugural and Topeka speech, and denies the right of the rebels and outlaws of the Territory to vote. He never thought of including them as citizens, or bona fide residents of Kansas. These things I "have heard from Governor Walker's friends, and believe them to be true, because from Walker's own lips I have tie strongest confirmation. At Leco'tnption, oa the 25th of July, the question as to the tax qualifications of voters was being discussed, Gov. Walker doubting whether the law was in force, or had been repealed by the last Legislature, when a friend and a strong pro-slavery man, informed him that Judge Cato was of the opinion that the law was of force, and that no one had a right to vote without first paying taxes, Gov. Walker replied, "I have gacat confidence in Judge Cato's legal opinions, and if that be his judgment, it will be better for us not to require these scoundrels" (the Abolitionists) " to pay taxes, for they will then be entitled to vote !" This is conclusive to my mind, that whatever may have been his views at his inauguration, in regard to citizens and residents, he is now in favor of limiting the right of suffrage to the registered voters, the tax-paying and lawabiding residents of Kansas. This is unquestionably a change of his policy, though he will not admit it. It is necessary, perhaps, for hiru to keep up the dehisior for a while yet; and this will account for his apparent public demonstration in favor of universal suffrage. The latest accounts from Kansas report " Gov. Walker as being indignant at the published upinion of Judge Cato, in favor of the tax qualification of voters." If his indignation is not merely pretensive, for effect, he is a false-hearted villain; if genuine, then he is a deceitful hypocrite, and merits the condemnation of all good people out of Kansas as well as in Kansas. The truth is, Walker has been endeavoring to please both parties, and finds himself in the dilemma illustrating the old adage of two stools, and is mortified to death to find his pride, which is excessive, must be humbled. His only followers are the soldiery, who are at best but the petty tools of power and command. Ilis hatred for the abolitionists is extreme. They have wheedled him into a policy they dispise and spit upon, to enable them to go on with their Topeka organization. Hence, if he j co-operates with the pro-slavery party, to j make Kansas a slave State, it will not be from priuciplc, but out of spite to the abolitionists. But be this as it may, the proslavery party are resolved to make Kansas a slave State, notwithstanding the wrongs and slanders of the Southern press. To this end they have labored since they have been iu Kansas, have periled their lives aud spent their fortunes, and will do so again if needs be. They will send a slavery Constitution to Congress, with their memorial for admittance into the Union, and let the Democratic party refuse her admission at their peril. Nothing ever grows old in memory ; j the little boy that died, so long ago is an eternal child, and even as he crept over the threshold of God's gate ajar, at the beckoning of the Lord, so ever in the heart his parting look with heaven shining full upon his brow; the beauty that the heart grew warm beholding, in life's forenoon, when dews were on the world, and played the truant with some angel, remains untouched by time, even as the unrent sky that let the wanderer in.? Chicago Journal. gjisttllaitfltts failing A REVOLUTIONARY LEGEND. It was here in these wilds of theWissahikon, on the day of the battle, as the noonday sun came shining through the thickly clustered leaves, that two men met in deadly conflict, near a rock that rose, like the huge wreck of some primeval world, at least one hundred feet above the dark waters of the Wissahikon. The man with the dark brow, and the darker grey eye, flashed with deadly light; with muscular form, clad in the blue hunting frock of the Revolution?is a Continen ol Wamor TTio krnfVinr tduq nnnr. dered the other night at the massacre of the Paoli. That other man, with long hlack ; hair, drooping along his cadaverous face, is clad in the half military costume of a tory refugee. This is the murderer of the Paoli, 1 named Dabney. They had met there in the woods hy accident; and now they fought, not with sword or rifle, but with long and deadly hunting ! knives, they go turning, twining and twist- 1 ing over the green sward. At last the tory is down ! down on the turf, with the knee of the continental upon 1 his breast?that upraised knife quivering in the light?that dark eye flashing death into 1 his face ! "Quarter! I yield !" gasped the tory, as ^ the knee was pressed upon his breast; ' 'spare me?I yield !" "My brother,,' said the patriot soldier, in ( that tone of deadly hate; "my brother cried . for quarter on the night of Paoli, and, even j as he clung to your knees you struck that knife into his heart. Oh, I will give you the quarter of Paoli!" * And as his hand was raised for the blow, and his teeth were clenched in deadly hate, he paused for a moment, and then pinioned i :J _i j_ j ( luc lui j o uiuig, uuu wnu rapiu ainue u rug- i ged him to the verge of the rock, and held him quiveriug over the abyss. "Mercy !" gasped the tory, turning black and a9hy, by turns, as that awful.gulf yawn- t ed below. "Mercy ! I have a wife, a child ! spare me !" Then the continental, with his mustered j strength gathered for the effort, shook the t murderer once more over the abyss, and then f hissed this bitter sneer between his teeth : s "My brother had a wife and two children. \ The morning after the night of the Paoli, f that wife was a widow?those children or- t phans! Wouldn't you like to go and beg ^ your life of that widow and her children ?" \ The proposal made by the continental, in c the mere mockery of hate, was taken in se- ^ rious earnest by the horror stricken tory.? ] He begged to be taken to the widow and her c children, to have the painful privilege of 1 begging for his life. After a moment of se- \ riousthought, the patriotic soldier consented. t He bound thetory's arms yet tighter, placed a him on the rock again, and then led him up a the woods. A quiet cottage embosomed a- \ mong the trees, broke on their eyes. s Thev entered that enttarrn Thorn heoido s J " ~WV~.D~. - MV'W the desolate hearthstone, sat the widow and ^ her children. She sat there, a matronly f woman of about thirty years, with a face }i faded by care, a deep dark eye, and long black 1 hair hanging in a dishevelled state about her j shoulders f On one side was a dark haired boy, of t some six years; on the other, a little girl one year younger, with light hair and blue t eyes. The Bible?an old and venerated vol- o ume?lay open on the mother's knee. F And then the pale-faced toiy flung him- d self on his knees, confessed that he had d butchered her husband on the night of Paoli, n but begged his life at her hands ?" 1 "Spare me for the sake of my wife, my h child!" t He had expected that this pitiful moan * would touch the widow's heart; but not one ? relenting gleam softened her pale face. a "The Lord shall judge between us!" she p said, in a cold, icy tone that froze the rour- ^ derers heart. "Look ! the [Bible lays open ^ in her lap; I will close that volume, and then this boy shall open it, and place his fin- ^ ger at random upon a line, and by that line 1 you shall live or die !" 0 This was a strange proposal made in good ^ faith of a wild and dark superstition of the 11 olden time. . For a moment, the tory, pale as ashes, was wrapt in thought. Then in a ^ faltering voice he signified his consent. Poising her dark eyes to heaven, the mother prayed the Great Father to direct the finger of her son. She closed the book?she handed it to that boy whose young cheek o reddened with loathing as he gazed upon his n father's murderer. He took the Bible, open- w ed its holy pages at random, and placed his h finger upon a verse. t< Then there was a silence. The continen- a tal soldier, who had sworn to avenge his e brother's death stood therewith dilating eyes d and parted lips. The culprit kneeling on a the floor, with a face like discolored clay, n felt his heart leap to his throat. b Then, in a clear, bold voice, the widow e read this line from the Old Testament. It a was short, yet terrible ! si "That man shall die !" h Look ! the brother springs forward to ci plunge a knife into the murderer's heart; d but the tory, pinioned as he is, clings to the c< widow's knees. He begs that one more trial ci may be made by the little girl, that child of k five years old with golden hair and laughing jv eyes. ; b The widow consents. There is an awful v pause. With a smile in her eye, without ti knowing what she does, the little girl opens ai the Bible as it lays on her mother's knee, si she turns her laughing face away and places e' her finger upon a line. a: That awful silence grows deeper. The lc deep drawn breath of the brother and the broken gasps of the murderer, alone disturb the stillness. The widow and dark eyed boy are breathless. The little girl, unconscious as she was, caught a feeling of awe from the countenances around her, and stood breathless, her face turned aside, and her tiny fingers resting on that line of life or death. At last, gathering courage, the widow bent her eyes to the page, and read. It was a line from the New Testament : "Love your enemies." Ab, that moment was sublime. Oh, awful book of God, in whose dread pages we see Moses talking face to face to Jehovah, or Jesus waiting by Samaria's well, or waudering by the waves of dark GalHee. Oh, awful Book, shiuing to-night as I speak, the light of that widow's home, the glory of the mechanic shop?shining '#here the world comes not, to look on the last night of the convict in his cell, lightning the way to God, even over that dread gibbet. Oh, book of terrible majesty and child-like love?of sub limity that crushes the soul into awe?of beauty that melts the heart with rapture, you ever shone more strangely beautiful than there in the lonely cot of the Wissahikon, when you saved the murderer's life. For need I tell you! that murderer's life was saved?the widow recognized the f nger of God, and even the stern brother was awed into silence. The murderer went his way.' Now look you, how wonderful arc the ways if Heaven ! That very night as the widow sat by her lonely hearth, her orphans by her side?sat there with a crushed heart arid hot jyeballs, thinking of her husband, who now ay mouldering cn the blood-drenched soil of Paoli?there was a tap at the door. She )pened it, and that husband, living, though jovered with wounds, was in her arms. He had fallen in Paoli, but not in death. Ele was alive, and his wife lay panting on lis bosom. That night there was a prayer in that woodjrabowered cot of the Wissahikon. A SNAKE STORY. A correspondent of the Abingdon Demorai, writing from Walnut Hill, Lee county, Virginia, who is, as the Democrat assures its eaders, "a gentleman in whom implicitconidence may be placed," gives the following iccount of the killing of a monster reptile in hat county. He says : ' About three weeks ago five men went to rather whortleberries in the mountainous jarts of Harlan County, Kentucky, * and in heir travels came to a small branch at the 'oot of a steep ridge, where they discovered i smooth beaten path, or rather slide, that ed from the branch up the ridge. Curiosiy tempted them to know its meaning, and hey followed the trail to the top of the ridge, vhere, to their astonishment, they found ajoutan acre of ground perfectly smooth and lestitute of vegctatioD, near the centre of vhich they discovered a small sink or cave, arjre enough to admit a barrel. They coniluded to drop in a few stones, and presenty their ears were saluted with a loud minding sound, accompanied with a rattling loise; and au enormous serpent made his ppearauce, blowing and spreading his head, md his forked tongue protruded. The men vcre struck with wonder and affright, and uddeuly the atmosphere was filled with a mell so nauseating that three out of the five vere taken very sick; the othor two discording the condition of their companions, dragged tlieni away from that abode of death.? kbout tea feet of the snake had, to their udgment, made its appearance, when they lurried home and related what they had seen 0 their neighbors. "The next day were mounted some ten of he hardy mountaineers, armed with rifles, letermined to destroy the moDSter. On apiroachiug within one hundred yards of the 1 welling of his snakeship, their horses sudlenly became restive, and neither kindness ior force could make them go any nearer.? i'he men dismounted, and hitching their mrscs, proceeded on foot, with rifles cocked, 0 the foot of the cave. They hurled in hree or four large stones, aDd fell back some fteen steps, when the same noise was heard s before, and out came the dreaded reptile, eady as his looks indicated to crush the inruders. About the same length of the snake ad appeared from the bole, when eight or sn bullets, went through his head, and as be monster died, he kept crawling out until wenty feet of that huge boa lay motionless n the ground. It was a rattlesnake, with wenty-eight rattles?the first was four inches 1 diameter, the rest decreasing in size to be last. With difficulty the men dragged im home, and his skin can now be seen by be curious, in Harlan county." HUMAN NATURE. Yesterday afternoon I stood by the coffin f a little girl, a spirit as pure as ever taberacled in flesh, so sweet and lovely, so full of 'inning ways and unfolding graces, that she ad won the love of a village, which bent in jarful sorrow around her cold and silent orpse. Did that weeping father and mothr suspect that the little immortal they had nrseri. and watched, and trained in such nxious care, and seen unfold in such sweetess and beauty, was the blasted bud of a lighted stock ? Oh, no ! They could nevr have watched through her painful illness, nd have "anticipated her every want, and tood calm and trustful there in that farewell our but for the faith, so full of beauty and onsoling power, that 3he was God's own aughter, reflecting his image in her innoencc, beauty and simplicity, in the divine i ipabilities of her soul. And though bro- ( en off, like an opening bud, from their conlgal vine, she was taken up to the sweet i owers and more congenial clime of a heaenly spring-time, where angel hands will < ain her faculties, and tone her affections, j ad tune her heart's lyre to the musio of the i lies, and from those celestial circles she will i rer beckon their spirits onward and upward, ] ad draw them by all the attractions of her i >ve, until the parents mourning here for a < ! daughter lost, shall be welcomed by an angel | woman there. Ask these mourners for a view of human nature, and they will tellyou that the tearful eye sees virtues clearer than vices, and the weeds of sorrow are a mantle of charity spread over the imperfections of the departed one; that they feel how much of goodness beats in that throbbing heart, how many generous purposes lit up that active brain, and how the fire of affection beamed from her mild eyes, and glowed in the heart beneath. And could the departed one come back, and speak with her innocent lips, and tell affection's tale?of the sleepless care and broodiug love of parents, and the selfforgetful devotion they lavished upon her from the cradle to the casket lined with af fection's flowers?of the ministrations of kindness and love from those around her? of the tears of sympathy shed unseen, and the prayers breathed unheard, except in heaven?we should throw the cold notions of a cruel creed to the winds, and in the earnest burst of assurance should exclaim : "A nature capable of so much goodness must bear the image of its Father, God 1" New York Christian Inquirer. Shall we Give up the Hoop ??The Express appears to think that hoops must now go out of fashion, because they are becoming so common, in their use, to the whole sex. We beg to put in a doubt on that subject. The same reason would drive stays out of the feminine market altogether. Women wear them, instead, universally, and console themselves by limiting the distinction to form and costliness. And thus it will be with the hoop. It is one of the most graceful, as it must be, in summer, one of the' most comfortable, of all inventions, recently applied to female costume. It is too useful, too valuable an article, therefore, to be slightly abandoned. It is so seldom the sex are favored with a discovery in garmenting that is really sensible and judicious, that they cannot afford to relinquish one when possessed of it- Fashion may banish, as she should banish, the infinitesimal bonnet, the fragile boot, the thin covering for the breast and arms, for all these are unwholesome?all benefit the physician and apothecary more than they do those who indulge in them, and desire to transmit a healthy physique to posterity. But the modern hoop has nothing iu common'with such eccentricities. When not exaggerated in its dimensions by bad taste, it is a beautiful innovation upon the old habit of wearing an entire wardrobe perdu, in order to give a sufficiently voluminous flow to the drapery outside. Such an auxiliary to nature should never be permitted to die out. The round and the plump, to be sure, might do without with impunity, but the meagre and fleshless, those whose fulness is confined entirely to the face, what spectres they would now become if deprived of the friendly assistanceof the steel or whalebone, rattan or gutta percha ! It will not do to thiuk of it.?Sunday Times. The Siamese Twins Outdone.?One of those remarkable malformations occasionally met with both among the higher and lower orders of the animal creation, presented itself a few days since in the practice of one of the physicians of this village. It was a child having two perfectly distinct heads, developed equally as regards size and shape, which are united to a single body, each by its own neck. The shoulders are broader than natural, but in other respects the body is not unlike that of other children at birth; it has but two arms and two legs. An internal examination was made (as it was dead born,) which exhibited a most singular arrangement of the organs contained in the chest and abdomen. Two perfect aud entire spinal columns were formed ; each had the usual numberof ribs, viz, twenty-four ; making forty-eight in all. The middle or internal set of ribs were united together, so that the entire chest consti. . v ? . 1 . * r tutea aoout a single cavity, conrainmg iour lungs, the middle pairs being united. Two wind-pipes led to the lungs. One heart circulated all the blood to this strange body. Two food pipes led to a single stomach, and, except that it had but one kidney, the right, the abdominal viscera were single and natu- ( ral. Cases of this kind are very seldom met with; and although we admit that i medical journals are the proper media in , which to publish accounts of these malfor- , mations, yet as these channels are strictly , professional, and as the people do take an , interest in such freaks of nature, as in the , notorious, though far less wonderful case of , the Siamese twins, exhibited in every part , of the world, we have though proper to pub- j lish the above account.?Sing Sing Repxib- \ liran, A ug. 20. , Is Tobacco Unwholesome??Beyond \ a doubt it is, when used excessively?when i smoked and chewed in such prodigiously | unchristian quantities as are used by some i men who would appear to think that the \ whole business of an individual's life is to t fill the air with as much smoke as Ire can, and to spit at, into, over, upon, under and around, every object that comes in his way. 1 But is it injurous to health when used t moderately??that is the question. < The Cincinnati Academy of Medicine c had the subject under consideration a few i days ago, when an interesting essay was read < by Dr. J. P. White. The essayist took the 1 ground that the deep and deadly hostility to < the use of tobacco by certain stony-souled 1 philanthropists and reformers of the present t day, is partially groundless. It assumed < that the smoking of good tobacco in judici- < ous quantities, not only might be harmless, c but might even be actually beneficial. In a the course of the discussion that ensued on ? the subject among the members of the A- cademy, the evils of excessive chewing were t acknowledged by all; but no one attempted to refute the assertion that a moderate use of the weed might be attended by a decided 1 benefit. Tobacco is a narcotic?the faet ^ that those who smoke it derive considerable < comfort from the practice,, cannot be denied. 1 It is a disinfectant, and often affectuallj counteracts the deleterious influence of con* tagious disease. It is a gentle stimulant, and may preserve the tissues from that wear and tear which the fierce pursuits of men at the present day cause. Let the arguments against the use of tobacco be directed against its abuse, and they may be more effectual.?St. Louis News. Newspaper Impersonality.?The New York Mirror hasa judicious article upon the proper method of conducting a newspaper. We extract the following paragraph as embodying a just estimate of public opinion respecting the matter: "The paper, which is the mere mouthpieee of an individual, the reflex of the peculiarities and idiosyccracies of a single man, is always liable in make itself iinnnnnlarnr In. _ j ?r-r? " ? dicrous, and can never be a power in the community. So long as the names of the publishers are known, the pnblic has every necessary guarantee of the responsibility of their prints. Who writes this or that article is a matter whioh does not concern the publie, and for which they care nothing. Nor do they trouble themselves much about editorial quarrels and bickerings, except to laugh indiscriminately, as a crowd does over a street fight. A newspaper of influence and ability is an institution, not a personality, and its expressed opinions are the aggregate opinions of a number of men acting with unanimity, with common motive, and with a fixed purpose.- Louis Napoleon crippled the French press effectively, when he compelled every newspaper article to be signed by the name of its writer; and the London Times would lose half its vigor and influence, were the same rule to be adopted in England/' " Sam " Sued in Kentucky, and Pleads that He is Dead.?On Fridayt a suit was tried in the Circuit Court of Campbell county, Kentuckey, Judge Moore presiding, which was brought by Shipley & Brothers, engravers, for seals engraved for the Know-Nothing Grand Council of Kenfcnnkv. and nfVipr Prmnpilo nf fViof against A. D. Smalley and Major Caldwell, who were the agents of the Council in ordering the seals. Ira Root and R. M. Webster appeared for the plaintiffs, and John W. 8tephenson (recently elected Democratic Member of Congress) for the KnowKothings. A large amount of correspondence between the litigants was read, all very affectionate, commenceing " Dear Brother," and ending "Yours fraternally." Mr. Stevenson, counsel for the KnowNothings, contended that, as Sam was dead, the suit should be brought aguinst the administrator of Sam's estate, and not against the agents. The Court, however, overruled this, and gave judgment against the defendants for 8392 50. The original bill was for 8350?the balance was interest.?Cin. ? cinnati Gazette, Auyutt 15. Annecdote cf a Railroad Conductor.?A writer in the Poet tells the following story of one who for 22 years was a conductor upon the Lowell Railroad, and is now a depot master. "A lady who had a boy with her considerably above the nonpaying age, attempted the rather difficult exploit (in the anti-crinoline period) of hiding her precious son under her skirts.? Uncle John, who saw more hulk than he could account for by an ordinary theory of personal enlargement, carefully reconnoitered the pile, and guessing the secret of the lady's extraordinary expansion, proceeded, without saying a word, to collect fare for one passenger and a half, and gave the lady her change, which, without looking it over, she put it in her 'pocket. Bye-and-by, observing that the boy was still kept in durance vile, Uncle John humanely whisper- \ ed in her ear, " You may as well let him ) out, you've paid for both !" The tradition is that there was some fun on the road when that child was delivered." ,, Men Millinebs.?They have txten milliners in Germany. A correspondent of the New York Times, in writing from Frankfort, says: "In America we have never seen men mantau-makers and milliners, but in Germany tbey are as common as men tailors, and if a man-tailor is the ninth part of a man, we have wondered what part must be a man milliner. One day, where we were sitting, a man came in with a dress, batted, ready to try on. Well, we confess, welooksd with all our eyes, to see what would "be done; but there was no hesitation?the iftdy took the robe to her room, and put it 00, returning in full dress, sans sleeves. The man Bxamined it, to see where it needed altering ?took it in on the shoulders, pinched up the biasses, and laid tbe plaits, evidently jsed to his business, and evidently, as the ady said he was, la'o excellent dress-maker, ind also that dresses made by men, kept heir place better, and lasted longer than hose made bv women. What Prayer Ts.?It is not, as we learn 'mm the success of Jacob's prayer, the place hat gives efficacy to the prayer, but the pray* ;r that makes the place holy. It is not the >ratory, as it has been alleged by some, that Bakes prayer, but- prayer that makes the >ratory?in a coal-pit, or with the Alpine lerdamen, or upon the deck of the ship tossid by the gale, or on the eve of battle. The leart alone makes holy any place, and builds ;he oratory, and consecrates everywhere a ihurch, a true church of the Lord Jesus jhrist. Bowed knees and beautiful words sannotmake prayer ; but earnest desires from l heart bowed by love, inspired by God's Holy Spirit, and thirsting for God?the living God ?will do it anywhere, or in'any place at any ime.?Last of the Patriarchs. tSf Dr. Cousin'having heard the famous r. Puller repeat verses on a scolding wife, ras so delighted vWth tbeuf as to request a sopy j- but Fuller told him?'aoopy was needess, as he had the original." ' - * ?